Microcara testacea (Linnaeus, 1767)

Litovkin, S. V. & Efimov, D. А., 2017, The marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) of Kemerovo region, Russia, Far Eastern Entomologist 338 (338), pp. 16-20 : 18-20

Microcara testacea (Linnaeus, 1767)

Figs 5, 6

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Kemerovo Region: Kemerovo distr., env. of Podyakovo village , pine forest, at light, 3–10.VII 2007, 1 ex. (А.Korshunov) ; Kemerovo, 28.VII 2011 , 1

ex. (D. Efimov).

DISTRIBUTION. Europe. This species is firstly recorded for Asia. The genus Microcara

C.G.Thomson, 1859 is recorded for the Asian part of Russia for the first time.

transmitted light; 3, 4 – Elodes tricuspis , male: 3 – genitalia, 4 – habitus; 5, 6 – Microcara testacea , male: 5 – genitalia, 6 – habitus.

Eight species from three genera of Scirtidae are recorded herein from Kemerovo Region for the first time. Thus, the fauna of West Siberian Scirtidae consists of 12 species in four genera including above listed species as well as Contacyphon kongsbergensis (Munster,

1923) from Kuznetsk upland (Krasutskiy, 2005) and Western Siberia (Klausnitzer, 2016a),

C. punctipennis (Sharp, 1872) from Western Siberia (Klausnitzer, 2016 a) and Krasnoyarsk

(Nyholm, 1972), and Scirtes haemisphaericus (Linnaeus, 1767) from vicinity of Barnaul

(Gebler, 1830).

Figures

Figs 1–6. Scirtidae. 1, 2 – Contacyphon sp., female genitalia: 1 – in reflected light, 2 – in